Dr Gunter Klass

Senior Lecturer in Organic, Pharmaceutical and Analytical Chemistry.

School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences

• Pharmaceutical Chemistry: drug structure (including stereochemistry), drug action & reactivity, drug synthesis.
• Analytical Chemistry: instrumental chromatography (GC, GC-MS, LC, LCMS), structural spectroscopy (ir and nmr).
• Organic Chemistry: reactivity, stereochemisty, carbohydrates, amino acids & proteins
• General Chemistry: reactivity of specific functional groups, structure and chemistry of fats, carbohydrates, amino acids & proteins, nucleic acids.

Ph.D., University of Adelaide (Organic Chemistry / Mass Spectrometry)

Grad Dip in Teaching, Adelaide College of Advanced Education

• Analytical/Organic Chemistry with specific application to Forensic Science.
• Analysis of Organic Explosives Residues
• Illicit Drug Analysis
• Instrumental Methods: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS).

“Manufacturing by-products from, and stereochemical outcomes of the biotransformation of benzaldehyde used in the synthesis of methamphetamine.”, M. Cox, G. Klass, C. W. M. Koo, Forensic Sc. Int., submitted for publication.

“Chemical markers from the peracid oxidation of isosafrole” M. Cox, G. Klass, S. Morey, P. Pigou, Forensic Sc. Int., 2008, 179, 44-53.

“Application of Time of Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry to the In-situ Analysis of Ballpoint Pen Inks on Paper.” J. Coumbaros, K. P. Kirkbride, G. Klass, W. Skinner, Forensic Sc. Int., submitted for publication.

"Glass containing GRS particles: a unique type of gunshot residue: a new type of highly characteristic particle?" P. Collins, J. Coumbaros, G. Horsley, B. Lynch, K. P. Kirkbride, W. Skinner, G. Klass, J. Forensic Sc., 2003, 48, 538.

“Decrease in toxicity of microcystins LA and LR in drinking water by ozonation”, S. Brooke, G. Newcombe, B. Nicholson, G. Klass, Toxicon, 2006, 48, 1054.